| [phoenix-dev] Newsgroups web interface |
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Team, Recent discussions on bug 78265 [1] lead me to conclude that a large portion of our users are uncomfortable with old-school newsgroups, or are simply unable to access them because of corporate firewall rules. Many would prefer a web forum, and judging by some of the comments in the bug, many people didn't know we had a simple web interface to our newsgroups: http://www.eclipse.org/newsportal/ I'd like to suggest that, when linking to a newsgroup, we discontinue linking to the NNTP group via news://news.eclipse.org/eclipse.group.name, and instead link to the web interface group via http://www.eclipse.org/newsportal/thread.php?group=eclipse.group.name . For everyone's convenience, we should also provide a link to the registration page as well [2]. For instance, in a typical HTML page/email, we could use this terminology: ... join the discussion on the project newsgroup (registration required). Thoughts? [1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=78265 [2] http://www.eclipse.org/newsgroups/register.php -- Denis Roy Manager, IT Infrastructure Eclipse Foundation, Inc. -- http://www.eclipse.org/ |